[Enzootic spinal ataxia in fallow and wild red deer in Upper Bavaria].
Since 1993 several cases of spinal ataxia occurred in adult red and/or fallow deer in four farms in Southern Bavaria. The disease based on a secondary copper deficiency due to a high level of molybden and a low level of copper content in the feed. Some of the animals suffer from a severe disturbance of motion. In most cases the animals are shot at the beginning of illness. Histologically the most important lesions are in the spinal cord consisting mainly in a bilateral symmetric degeneration of dorsolateral and ventral areas of the white matter. Degeneration is caused by lamellar disintegration of the myelin connected with deposition of fine-granulated substances detectable by electronmicroscopical investigation. In the liver and other organs we always found a hemosiderosis which is also believed to be caused by copper deficiency.
Geisel
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Institut für Tierpathologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Betzl
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Dahme
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Schmahl
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Hermanns
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D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001259:Ataxia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D003300:Copper / Q000172:deficiency; D003670:Deer; D004032:Diet; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D008982:Molybdenum; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000662:veterinary*
D003300:Copper; D008982:Molybdenum
Enzootische spinale Ataxie bei Dam- und Rotwild in Gehegen in Oberbayern.